Prince William And Kate Flashcards

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The forbidding rube al-khali one of these covering more then a fourth of Saudi Arabia is also called empty quarter

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Desert

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The institution called the first this founded in 1791 issued the only notes accepted for paying taxes

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The first bank of the U.S.

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Meaning near this other 4 letter word that also starts with n follows the end is on apocalyptic signs

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Nigh

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This former brat packer played Mary Andrews mom to Archie on this cw series

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Molly ringwald on Riverdale

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5
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A beatitude says blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after this quality

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Righteousness

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Falsetto is used by male singers to reach this vocal register of jessye Norman and Joan Sutherland

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Soprano

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1940 originators of this first kind of modern jazz included dizzy Gillespie and thelonious monk

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Bebop

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8
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Musical term diminuendo or this negative of another term
Duh min u endo

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Day crescendo
Decrescendo

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9
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In songs the name of this dance follows beer barrel (fun) too fat and strip (hey now ) and

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Polka

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10
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Eminem
hit me back just to chat truly yours your biggest fan

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Stan

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Charles dickens coined this word for doctors of Victorian era who cut and amputated legs fast as there was no anesthesia

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Sawbones

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Hall and Oates
Shell only come out at night the lean and hungry type

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Maneater

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Fleetwood Mac
Rings like a bell through the night

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Re ahnn in

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TLC
Please stick to the rivers and lakes that you’re used to

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Waterfalls

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15
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George Michael
I know not everybody has got a body like you

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Faith

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16
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Trumpet players use this device to alter tonal quality in addition to lowering the volume
but do they hit it as they do

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Hit the Mute

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17
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Eyes on these can sprout and the resulting buds contain a toxin called sol uh neen

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Potatoes

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18
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A beholder is also called the sphere rod many eyes in the first edition of this alliterative dungeons and dragons reference book

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Monster manual

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Simple
To prepare using bread and crackers these or derves with a fancy French name can be tiny open faced sandwiches

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Canapés

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20
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If your making Greek appetizers dolmades yalantzi make sure these leaves are tender before stuffing them
Yuwl lan zee

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Grape leaves

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21
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Traditional
Number or eyes seen in artwork of the 3 wise monkeys

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4
One hand over

22
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Also called Fan shells or comb shells these mollusks can have up to 200 eyes

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Scallops

23
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Th black country geo park in this country included coal mines and other sites at the heart of the Industrial Revolution

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England

24
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Learn about the Canadian this the huge rock formation that underlies much of northeast North America at Quebec’s per say geo park

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Shield

25
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In Austria you can visit historic mines in the geek called ore of this mountains

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Alps

26
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A geopark named for these people is located on the north coast of Spain near the French border

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Basque

27
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From the Yiddish it means to carry or haul or to move at a tediously slow pace

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Schlep

28
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Word that means to search thoroughly can be found before the word sale

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Rummage

29
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Ecuador eem bah bora geopark has 13 of these
3 potentially active the rest dormant or extinct

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Volcanos

30
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While a profeeesor of astronomy at uppsala university he came up with his famous temperature scale

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Celsius
Sweeden

31
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Ancient Roman god of beginnings

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Janus
January named for
Also the God of Gates and doorways

32
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According to the nursery rhyme with an old mother Hubbard , try to find in her cupboard

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Bone
Oh, mother Hubbard, went to the cupboard, but unfortunately it was boneless

33
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In 1876 the battle known as Custer’s last stand took place in this modern day state

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Montana
The battle of Little Bighorn was between federal troops led by lieutenant colonel George Custer, and Native American forces led by sitting bull

34
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At the same temperature which is heavier, dry air, or humid air

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Humid air is lighter
Because water has a lower molecular weight than either nitrogen or oxygen human airways less

35
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One of the best selling memoirs ever which first ladies autobiography sold more than 10 million copies

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Michelle Obama becoming sold 2 million copies in his first 16 days and was the best selling book of any kind in the US in 2018

36
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Sometimes called the sixth sense proprioception is the fancy name for this

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Spatial awareness
If you want to touch your nose, proprioception, helps you know where your nose and your finger are

37
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Leonard Warren made quite an exit in 1960 at this NYC venue when he sang urna fatale del mio Destino and died

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MET
Opera singer

38
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History
1976 report initiated by Admiral Rico found it was an internal not external explosion that caused the destruction of this

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USS Maine
Spanish American war found that it was not a mine that blew up the ship
Which Sparked the Spanish American war

39
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He was still in Harvard Medical School when he sold the movie rights to Andromeda strain

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Michael Creighton
Never did practice

40
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He studied accounting a Mississippi State law at Ole Miss, then changed careers and wrote 49 straight, number #1 best sellers

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Grisham

41
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Back from Burma in the 1930s this Britt took his pen from the raining king and a local river

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George Orwell

42
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General Lee decided on a charge to take cemetery hill on July 3, 1863 during this battle

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Gettysburg

43
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Before deciding to cross this stream Julius Cesar apparently saw an apparition with a trumpet

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Rubicon

44
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Around 539 BC, this ruler permitted the Jewish exiles of Babylon to return to their homeland

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Cyrus, the great

45
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He decided against a New World Empire after his brother-in-law Charles leclerc died of yellow fever in Haiti 1802
Luh clerk

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Napoleon

46
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No visibility at the city of kokura on August 9, 1945 caused a B-29 bomber to change its course and fly to the city
Co core uh

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Nagasaki

47
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She got her MA in linguistics went to China for the first time in 1987 put three short stories in novel form and had luck with that

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Amy Tan

48
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Architect Julian Abel couldn’t have known his steps at the Philadelphia Museum of Art would one day bear this character name

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Rocky

49
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Philly is the city of this guy from center city and his band’s special sauce

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G Love and special sauce

50
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Todd storz owner of KOwH in Omaha is credited with pioneering This numerical hit radio format in the 1950s.

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